A Gargantuan Grab-Bag of Gorgeously Graven Giants of Grace and Grandeur – all for sale on May 16th, 2012

The hits just keep on coming with this week’s selection of new books, all available on May 16th, 2012. The women’s contingeant in the Bat-Books have their run-ins with The Parliament of Owls as Catwoman, Batwoman and the Birds of Prey are called upon to deal with the threat at hand. AVENGERS VERSUS X-MEN gets another chapter expanding once again into individual books to capture all the action. JUSTICE LEAGUE #9 is in and Geoff Johns and Jim Lee are back on the book! The ENDS OF THE EARTH storyline begins with a vengeance in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Longstanding industry magazines such as BACK ISSUE, ALTER EGO and ILLUSTRATION are all fresh with a new issue on the stands (two in the case of AE!). Ramon Perez’s work continues in JOHN CARTER: GODS OF MARS. HULK SMASH AVENGERS, THE BLACK WIDOW and FURY:MAX each have a new weekly issue. We learn the secret history of the FANTASTIC FOUR in a “point one” issue this week, and SAGA, fast becoming everyone’s new favourite book, sets us up with a third issue. COME AND GET ‘EM!!!!